People: We Americans are fed up with government! They can't get anything done! Apparently it takes a supermajority to pass anything! We'll make darn sure nobody has that! Rotate the bums in and out!
Of course the issue here is that the entire system does not work – and “voting the bums out” is a stupid choice since you’ll just get more of the same.
Study after study has shown the American people prefer “divided” government.
Anthony, if you read the Anti-Federalist papers you will see that our founding fathers wanted the many problems we face solved at a state level not by a big strong overpowering central government. So davesmith above is the true student of history.
Picture the positive results if the Feds cut their income/taxes by 50% and to the penny that exact amount was collected by the states. Taxes would be exactly the same but the 50 cents on each dollar wasted by DC would be saved.
A major advantage would be citizens could vote with their feet.
It’s only silly women who want government to get something “done”. Most of us just want it to protect us and provide for the general work, not expand itself every year!
You Demoncrat-worshippers had your super-majority. And all you did was make a super-majority of Americans despise your Party with a vitriolic passion not seen since Reconstruction.
Enjoy being booted out of office in record numbers this November, jackasses. You’ll look fondly back on 1994 and wish you had even THAT many members in Congress…
Scottie, didn’t Jesus say something about loving your enemies? Apparently your Bible doesn’t contain those words.
BTW, H. L. Mencken said, “Never underestimate the stupidity of the American People.”
I agree with Dave Smith on this one. It has been a long time since the Government came out with anything that I thought made my life better. Everytime they get something done I lose Freedoms or Money.
And Anthony should go soak his head. Isn’t it telling that when someone expresses a love for their freedom you get someone like Anthony talking about how selfish they are. Apparently we aren’t supposed to enjoy our freedoms and instead should toil for the betterment of others (Usually politicians and the politically favored).
Of course “majority” slavery of the Conservatives means nobody ever votes for what is good for the people, or their actual conscience, rather than walk off the cliff, lock-stepped purely dedicated to follow the party line, like Cheney and Super-stud Newt demanded.
^People like Snott (and I use the term people loosely in his case) love to pick and choose passages that in some shape way or form seem to justify their hate. For example the passage where God says, “One Man, one woman” somewhere in those four words they find that God hates homosexuals. I don’t know how they get that rational from four words but they manage to do it. And in doing so they make people like me (and others) want to avoid religion because dudes like Snott are crazy people-And if he is the product of the church the rational people are gonna turn tail and run in the other direction.
churchillwasright! my frontal lobe is swimming–I just got home from a shoulder reconstruction and am typing w/one hand whilst cross-eyed from the pain meds…I’ll attempt to catch up w/you guys now
churchillwasright! My frontal lobe is swimming–I just got home from shoulder reconstruction surgery and am typing w/one hand whilst cross-eyed from the pain meds. I’ll try to catch up w/you guys now that I am home. Ouch.
“Sensing political advantage, Republicans are resisting President Obama’s call for a bipartisan commission to cut the debt, although recent studies have implicated the tax cuts and spending policies of the years after 2000 when they controlled Congress and the White House. Even seven Republican senators who had co-sponsored a bill to create a commission nonetheless voted against it recently.”
Wow…seven out of 27 sponsors of the bill. A testament to Republican hypocrisy…uh, I mean…integrity that ONLY SEVEN OF THE TWENTY SEVEN SPONSORS OF THE BILL withdrew their support in order to comply with the Republican requirement that Party must be put before bipartisanship and the American people.
And you didn’t say…how do you feel about the Republicans who voted against the stimulus, but then appeared at ribbon-cutting ceremonies claiming credit for the stimulus effects on their home districts?
davesmithsit over 14 years ago
The less they get done the less freedom and money I lose the happier I am .
riley05 over 14 years ago
Yes, Dave Smith, you’re a true patriot. If only all Americans were as self-centered as you.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1479774.html
Bubba_Boo Premium Member over 14 years ago
The health care vote among only democrats showed that some of them are really rethuglicans in disguise.
riley05 over 14 years ago
Scott, stop lying so much. Do I need to remind you yet again about Rev 21:8? Or is that part of your bible that you’re always going to ignore?
58 is not a “super-majority”.
Meanwhile, you and others will enjoy this:
http://tinyurl.com/yjuz5k8
cdward over 14 years ago
Of course the issue here is that the entire system does not work – and “voting the bums out” is a stupid choice since you’ll just get more of the same.
Libertarian1 over 14 years ago
Study after study has shown the American people prefer “divided” government.
Anthony, if you read the Anti-Federalist papers you will see that our founding fathers wanted the many problems we face solved at a state level not by a big strong overpowering central government. So davesmith above is the true student of history.
Picture the positive results if the Feds cut their income/taxes by 50% and to the penny that exact amount was collected by the states. Taxes would be exactly the same but the 50 cents on each dollar wasted by DC would be saved.
A major advantage would be citizens could vote with their feet.
HabaneroBuck over 14 years ago
It’s only silly women who want government to get something “done”. Most of us just want it to protect us and provide for the general work, not expand itself every year!
leipsicbob over 14 years ago
ScottfreitasGenius_badge said, about 3 hours ago
You Demoncrat-worshippers had your super-majority. And all you did was make a super-majority of Americans despise your Party with a vitriolic passion not seen since Reconstruction.
Enjoy being booted out of office in record numbers this November, jackasses. You’ll look fondly back on 1994 and wish you had even THAT many members in Congress…
Scottie, didn’t Jesus say something about loving your enemies? Apparently your Bible doesn’t contain those words.
BTW, H. L. Mencken said, “Never underestimate the stupidity of the American People.”
Mephistopheles over 14 years ago
I agree with Dave Smith on this one. It has been a long time since the Government came out with anything that I thought made my life better. Everytime they get something done I lose Freedoms or Money.
And Anthony should go soak his head. Isn’t it telling that when someone expresses a love for their freedom you get someone like Anthony talking about how selfish they are. Apparently we aren’t supposed to enjoy our freedoms and instead should toil for the betterment of others (Usually politicians and the politically favored).
cjr53 over 14 years ago
We’d be better off if our government stopped wasting money on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that W & Crew started.
That money would be better spent on American roads, bridges and other infrastructure. It could put Americans to work.
zekedog55 over 14 years ago
Scotty Scairdy-cat has no heart with which to interpret scripture. Yeah, we all have minds…that free will condition is the kicker–
“If you are a Republican before 30 yrs. old, you have no heart- If you are a Democrat after 30 you have no brain.”
So in us all we find the soul of a Libertarian?
Dtroutma over 14 years ago
Of course “majority” slavery of the Conservatives means nobody ever votes for what is good for the people, or their actual conscience, rather than walk off the cliff, lock-stepped purely dedicated to follow the party line, like Cheney and Super-stud Newt demanded.
d_legendary1 over 14 years ago
^People like Snott (and I use the term people loosely in his case) love to pick and choose passages that in some shape way or form seem to justify their hate. For example the passage where God says, “One Man, one woman” somewhere in those four words they find that God hates homosexuals. I don’t know how they get that rational from four words but they manage to do it. And in doing so they make people like me (and others) want to avoid religion because dudes like Snott are crazy people-And if he is the product of the church the rational people are gonna turn tail and run in the other direction.
POPPA1956 over 14 years ago
Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for. Will Rogers
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain
Oh, I don’t blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I’d be irresponsible, too. Lichty and Wagner
Magnaut over 14 years ago
want to change things join the teaparty…that’s where change will come from
zekedog55 over 14 years ago
churchillwasright! my frontal lobe is swimming–I just got home from a shoulder reconstruction and am typing w/one hand whilst cross-eyed from the pain meds…I’ll attempt to catch up w/you guys now
churchillwasright! My frontal lobe is swimming–I just got home from shoulder reconstruction surgery and am typing w/one hand whilst cross-eyed from the pain meds. I’ll try to catch up w/you guys now that I am home. Ouch.
riley05 over 14 years ago
“Sensing political advantage, Republicans are resisting President Obama’s call for a bipartisan commission to cut the debt, although recent studies have implicated the tax cuts and spending policies of the years after 2000 when they controlled Congress and the White House. Even seven Republican senators who had co-sponsored a bill to create a commission nonetheless voted against it recently.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/business/economy/17gridlock.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
riley05 over 14 years ago
Wow…seven out of 27 sponsors of the bill. A testament to Republican hypocrisy…uh, I mean…integrity that ONLY SEVEN OF THE TWENTY SEVEN SPONSORS OF THE BILL withdrew their support in order to comply with the Republican requirement that Party must be put before bipartisanship and the American people.
And you didn’t say…how do you feel about the Republicans who voted against the stimulus, but then appeared at ribbon-cutting ceremonies claiming credit for the stimulus effects on their home districts?
riley05 over 14 years ago
You seem determined to miss the point that the Republicans will always vote per party rather than per the people, even for bills they’ve sponsored.
Being forced to vote against a bill you’ve sponsored doesn’t indicate bipartisanship.